Driverless Cars Could Become WMDs
October 9, 2018 · Web Only, Cybersecurity
Autonomous vehicles are giant security risk and the white hats need to get there before the black hats do.
Zach Aysan is a technology and security writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2018. His articles focused on the potential national security threats posed by autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, exploring how emerging automotive technologies could be exploited for terrorist attacks.
Autonomous vehicles are giant security risk and the white hats need to get there before the black hats do.
It's a calm Saturday morning in August of next year. Suddenly, across the nation, 12,000 Tesla Model S sedans start up at the same time. They engage Tesla's vaunted autopilot feature and head out onto the road. Some of them make their way to local gas stations. Some to electrical substations. And…